Ken Stuart

Hello,

While surfing, I came across a great thread which should give SACD (and DVD-A) fans an idea of why these formats are not very successful.

The people in the thread are amongst those who (outside of dedicated audiophiles) should have the most motivation to be interested in SACD. So their honest and frank comments are illuminating:

http://www.pinkfloydfan.net/t2859.html

Scott L

Favorite quote so far:
So which speaker you think is the one for drums?

Peter Kline

The one in my next door neighbors apartment that blasts into my bedroom!

Marc Colella

Which goes to show that most people (and by a large margin) purchased that disc for the CD layer.

Eventually Sony will learn that most people don't care.

Lewis Besze

Oh boy, the "Best Buy" generation strikes again.
Hey but they have cool MP3 players and spend more time downloading music,then "chasing tails".

Will_B

Sounds like they maybe should have introduced SACD as a stealth format, placed in every CD player for a few years before they announced it existed. That would have helped it get accepted.

Yee-Ming

Good grief, someone thought that the reason the DSotM SACD wouldn't play 5.1 was because it was encoded in DTS (a format created by the MPA?!?!) and the receiver was an older one that only supported DD.

Hmmmmmm, so even the great DSotM isn't enough of a "killer app" that convinces die-hard Floyd fans to get on board with SACD (as previously noted on this forum, for me this was the release that "forced" me to get a universal player). Many don't even seem to know what it is at all. Does this really makes us HTFers a bunch of elitists that happily lap up the newest formats?

MichaelTa

DSOTM is the reason I bought my SCD-CE775. FWIW I bought my DVD-A player because of the releases of American Beauty and Workingmans Dead. I never see any adds for either format nor is there any kind of push done by retailers.

Such a long long time to be gone, such a short time to be there.

RaulR

Not so much elitist as more inclined to check out new AV technology than your average consumer. Whether that's a good thing or not depends on your attitudes and the state of your wallet.

The Pink Floyd newsgroup has been getting a lot of this kind of confused posts since the SACD was released. Some of the regular posters there try to be understanding and helpful, but it can get frustrating, especially when you consider that someone with enough Net savvy to get onto Usenet should also be able to find a reliable Web site or discussion forum if they wanted info. For some reason, a great many people have gotten it into their heads that the stereo SACD layer is a remix and are busy passing on this misinformation. Then there are the ones who listened to the disc on a system that was incorrectly set up, heard some anomalies and, instead of checking their settings, immediately go on a public forum with messages like "The saxophone sounds muted like it's coming from miles away, and some instruments are completely missing -- how could such a major reissue have come out like this with no one noticing?"

Ultimately, it's up to the recording industry and equipment manufacturers to make it easier for the average consumer to figure out these newfangled technologies if they want them to sell. But it seems they're too busy worrying about proprietary formats and copy protection to notice.

KeithH

Raul said:



'Newsgroup'. Nuff said.

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